I'd guess that anyone that can afford a more modern gun goes straight to the AK, Arabs love Kalash.
I'd also guess that it's more lucrative for China to export SKS' to Canada.
Makes sense, as to why theres no middle ground between milsurp bolt action and AK.
Wonder when exactly those SKS made it to Yemen too. Could they be as old as the former Egyptian/Iraqi/PLO ones we see in the surplus market here some time? There was an Iraqi marked Russian in the EE a few months back, I should have snagged it